A
former babysitter charged with abducting a two-year-old girl from her
home in the middle of the night and dumping her eight miles away, naked
and covered in injuries, was a college dropout who got engaged just
weeks ago.

Abigail
Hanna, 21 from Topsfield, Massachusetts, was arrested on Friday after
Lyndon Albers a child who she looked after, was discovered lying on the
side of the road three hours after she was reported missing.

The
toddler had cigarette burns on her body and her head had been shaved.
She was taken to hospital and was released on Sunday afternoon.

Hanna,
who is being held without bail, was educated at an $18,000-a-year
private Christian Preparatory school in Connecticut, a report suggests.

She
grew up in a family home worth more than $1million, according to
Zillow, before attending Gordon College - but a spokesman told the Boston Globe she left after just one semester.

According to Facebook, she got engaged to Nathan Wolters earlier this month. But he deleted his profile after her arrest.

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Police have
charged Abigail Hanna (pictured left) the former babysitter of a
two-year-old girl, with kidnapping Lyndon Albers (right) after the child
disappeared from her home and was found later naked, covered in
cigarette burns and with a shaved head

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Lyndon (pictured, before her
disappearance) was last seen by her parents at home at around 3am and
then reported missing at 7am on Friday

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According to her Facebook page, Hanna got engaged to Nathan Wolters (pictured together) this month

An
ex-classmate, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Globe: 'When I
first met her I thought she was really nice, pretty sweet. She was
usually very insightful when we had conversations, or in class.'

She
revealed that she was transferred to The Master's when she was a junior
and started babysitting while she was in Connecticut.

The
classmate said Hanna was struggling with depression and 'body image'
issues, but nothing that would have predicted her alleged actions.

'I
didn't expect something so severe to happen,' said the classmate.
'Especially because it seemed like after high school she had more
support from others, and was doing what she wanted to do.... I was
honestly just shocked.

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She
had recently shared an article titled '18 Empowering Illustrations to
Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies' on her
Facebook page.

Hanna also posted a link to a poem she had written, Movement, and had published on website Teen Ink.

She was well traveled, living in London and studying in Azusa, California.

Hanna's father, Laurie, is listed on Facebook as a teacher at Stafford Springs Elementary in Connecticut.

After her arrest, Hamilton Police Chief Russell Stevens said the evidence indicates that the abduction was not a random crime.

He added that further details are not being released to 'protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation'.

Sources told WHDH that the family had trusted the babysitter at one point, but had recently fired her.

According to the Boston Herald, she only looked after Lyndon once or twice as she wasn't available enough.

The
Hamilton Police Department says Hanna has been charged with kidnapping,
assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery
on a child, and breaking and entering

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Hanna
(pictured) was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery by means of a
dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a child and breaking and
entering

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A former classmate said Hanna was
struggling with depression and 'body image' issues, but nothing that
would have predicted her alleged actions

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Hanna (pictured center, with her family) is being held without bail, Hamilton police department said

Lyndon's
parents Tim and Joanie told police they last saw her at around 3am at
their home in Hamilton, Massachusetts. They reported her missing at
7am.

According to NECN, an Amber Alert was in the process of being issued before Lyndon was found.

She
was shivering from the cold and sitting in a pile of leaves with a
bruise on her newly shaved head when she was spotted by Tom and Marge
Crosby, who were driving to their boutique in Amesbury at the time.

Tom Crosby said it was a 'vision; that compelled him to turn his car around after spotting the child in the road.

'I don't want to say a vision but that's what it was — a vision,' he told the Boston Herald. 'I drove by and then quickly it flashed through my head. I said 'Was that a baby or was it a doll?''

They couple bundled the child into their car and gave her a blanket as they waited for police.

'She was alert but had a big contusion on her head,' his wife Marge added to WHDH.

Lyndon was reunited with her parents at Beverly Hospital and has since been transferred to Boston Children's Hospital.

On Sunday afternoon, she was released.

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Lyndon was shivering from the cold and
sitting in a pile of leaves with a bruise on her newly shaved head when
she was spotted by Tom and Marge Crosby (pictured)

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Marge
Crosby (left) said the child had a contusion on her head. Her husband
Tom (right) said a 'vision' compelled him to turn his car around after
spotting what appeared to be a child

On Friday, Chief Stevens could not confirm if Lyndon left the home on her own accord or if she was taken.

'We're trying to put the pieces together right now,' he said at a news conference.

'It's like a jigsaw puzzle and a bunch of the pieces are missing.'

Police
executed a search warrant at Lyndon's home on Friday and said they were
treating it as a crime scene until they knew more information.

Stevens also said there was no threat to the public.

'If
I thought parents should be concerned, I would be the first one
standing if front of this microphone and your cameras telling them to be
concerned,' he said.

They say most kids are killed within an hour of abduction. You can't turn your back for a second. There are some sick people out here.

Kentucky town shaken by killing of 7-year-old girl

(CNN)The killing happened quickly and left a small Kentucky town reeling.

The arrest took a week.

Gabriella
"Gabbi" Doolin, 7, disappeared from a crowd watching a youth football
game November 14 in Scottsville, a town of about 4,200 people near
Bowling Green, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.

When
her parents realized she was missing, an announcement was made on the
public address system. The game was stopped and everybody in the stands
started looking for her.

Less
than half an hour later her body was found in a creek about 400 yards
from the Allen County-Scottsville High School stadium, where the game
had been played, WSMV said.

The town was shaken.

"It's just something we never thought would happen," Misty Hollars, a friend of the slain girl's father, told WSMV. "We are a small town. We watch everybody else's kids."

Scottsville mourned as small towns do.

A Facebook page was set up. A home run derby and a fishing tournament
were organized to raise money to help the family with funeral expenses.
T-shirts were sold with words remembering "Scottsville's little angel."
A prayer vigil was held on the town square. A crowd attended the
funeral Thursday.

Timothy Madden

On Friday, an arrest was made.

Timothy
Madden, 38, of Scottsville, was charged with murder, kidnapping,
first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, Kentucky State Police said at
a press conference.

"I've done nothing wrong," he said. "I'm a very innocent man. They can ask anybody that knows me."

Madden
said he went to school with Gabbi's father and was friends with the
Doolin family. He said he attended the game that night and his daughter
cheered with Gabbi. Police interviewed him that night, he said.

"They
interrogated me -- like three or four times," he told WDRB. "Polygraph.
I give them my clothes that night. They did mention I had blood on my
clothes. But I rubbed against the fence, like I said."

Madden is being held in the Barren County jail on a $1 million bond.

"I
think it's safe to say Allen County has changed forever," said B.J.
Eaton, public information officer for the Kentucky State Police post
investigating the case, speaking to CNN affiliate WBKO.

Mark Ross, speaking to WBKO at a prayer vigil before the arrest was made, expressed the community's disbelief.

"You
just don't realize that there are people that would do this that are in
this community," he said. "I don't know if they're from here or where
they're from, but that someone could actually do that in an area where
you feel so safe. You just don't, you just don't think it could happen."

This is exactly why I be at home...niccas just don't give a damn...man, woman or child, you can get it.

17 people shot in Bunny Friend Park Sunday night: NOPD

Seventeen people were injured
Sunday night (Nov. 22) after gunfire erupted during a block party at
Bunny Friend Park in the Upper 9th Ward, New Orleans Police Department
officials said.

EMS transported 10 victims to area hospitals, and another six arrived
at emergency rooms through private conveyance. Monday morning NOPD said
a 17th victim had been confirmed.

Speaking at the scene Sunday night, NOPD Superintendent Michael
Harrison said he believed multiple people had fired into the crowd of
more than 300. NOPD spokesman Tyler Gamble later confirmed that all
victims are in stable condition.

"Detectives are still working to determine the extent of all of the
victims' injuries," NOPD said in a news release. "Information on the age
and gender of all victims involved as well as the extent of their
injuries will be provided when it is available."

Several witnesses said the gathering was part of an after party for
the Nine Times Social Aide & Pleasure Club's annual second line,
which earlier in the day proceeded through the Desire and Florida
Development neighborhoods before disbanding at Sampson Park in St.
Roch. Harrison described the after-party as an "unpermitted event."

"We staffed the second line pretty heavily," Harrison said. The NOPD
later received word of an impromptu music video being shot inside the
park, he said. The event must have "circulated through social media," he
added, "because we got no report of it."

Officers were dispatched to the park to shut the gathering down,
Harrison said. "They were a block away when they heard gunshots and were
flagged down" from there. EMS appeared on the scene soon after, he
said.

One witness, a nurse who declined to provide her name citing safety
concerns, said two groups began shooting at each other around 6:15 p.m.
"It was like New Year's Eve all over again," she said.

Multiple witnesses said they saw a man with a silver-colored machine
gun fleeing the scene toward Louisa Street. They said the gunfire
continued inside the park as the man ran away.

After the shooting, witnesses described several gunshot victims lying
in the middle of Gallier Street and Desire Street as EMS responders
administered to them.

Joseph Jordan was in a house across the street from the park with his
friend, who gave her first name as Raven, when they heard gunshots.
Later someone called Raven and told her that her niece had been shot.
The two rushed to the hospital to check on the 14-year-old, who had been
shot three times in the leg.

Speaking of the hospital, Jordan said: "It's still crowded back there."

Mayor Mitch Landrieu joined Harrison during a press conference at the
scene. He applauded the quick response of the NOPD and EMS.

"At the end of the day, it's really hard to police against a bunch of
guys who decided to pull out guns and settle their disputes with 300
people in between them," Landrieu said. "It's not something you can
tolerate in the city."

Both Harrison and Landrieu said they hoped that witnesses inside the park would help the NOPD to identify the shooters.

"This is a classic case where we need citizen help," Harrison said.
"People know who did this. We need them to come forward and tell us so
we can bring these people to justice."

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu
had a warning Sunday (Nov. 22) for Euric Cain, the suspect in the early
Friday shooting of "good Samaritan" Tulane Medical School fourth-year
student Peter Gold: "We know who you are and you need to know that we are going to find you."

Landrieu and New Orleans Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said
Cain had been identified from surveillance videos released by the police
department over the weekend that showed a gunman shoot Gold, 25, in the
1000 block of St. Mary Street.

The
New Orleans Police Department has named Euric Cain as a suspect in the
shooting of a Tulane Medical School student and attempted kidnapping of a
woman. New Orleans Police Department

Landrieu said Gold "saw a man dragging a woman towards a vehicle. He
recognized that something was wrong, and when tried to intercede, the
suspect then stopped, demanded money from him.

"Dr. Gold put his hands up," Landrieu said. "The suspect then shot
him in the stomach in an unprovoked attack and then attempted to kill
him twice. Fortunately the gun jammed."

Police said the assailant's gun jammed and he then took the woman's
purse and fled the area in a gray or silver SUV, much of which was
caught by surveillance cameras. On Sunday morning, detectives recovered a SUV believed used in the incident in the 2200 block of John Raphael Place.

Landrieu said Crimestoppers has offered a $12,500 reward for
information leading to the suspect's arrest. And he warned anyone
helping Cain that they, too, could be arrested.

"We need the public's help to do this, but there is no question that
now that we know who he is, that he will be brought to justice,"
Landrieu said. "And anyone who harbors him is going to be arrested, and
you're going to be convicted to the fullest extent of the law as well."

Landrieu also attempted to allay concerns about this and other recent violent crimes.

"To the residents and to the visitors to New Orleans, we are going to
do everything that we can to make sure that the city is safe," he said.
"We are not going to back down."

Harrison said that the investigation leading to Cain's identification
was led by Sixth District Detectives Walter Edmond and Michael Poluiki.
Detectives have obtained arrest warrants for Cain on charges of
attempted first degree murder, second degree kidnapping and armed
robbery.

"We know that Cain was last arrested on Nov. 2 for possession of a
stolen cell phone that was taken in a carjacking in the first district,"
Harrison said. He said Cain's criminal record also includes charges of
possession of a stolen vehicle and several weapons charges.

"From the footage of this incident, it is clear that this is a
dangerous individual who doesn't value the lives of others," Harrison
said. "He made a conscious decision to hurt our fellow citizens."

Harrison said detectives had interviewed the unidentified woman
Saturday who was being dragged by the suspect when Gold intervened. He
confirmed that the woman had been treated for injuries she had suffered
during the struggle.

Landrieu said he and Harrison had also talked to Gold's family
members, including his father, who is a graduate of the Tulane Medical
School.

Police release video of Tulane med student shooting: Graphic content

New Orleans police released surveillance footage of Tulane
University medical student Peter Gold being shot early Friday morning
(Nov. 20) while trying to stop an apparent armed robbery at Magazine and
St. Mary streets in the Lower Garden District.
(Image via NOPD)

on November 20, 2015 at 4:52 PM, updated November 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM

New Orleans police released surveillance footage of Tulane
University medical student Peter Gold being shot early Friday morning
(Nov. 20) while trying to stop an apparent armed robbery at Magazine and
St. Mary streets in the Lower Garden District.

Warning: This video contains graphic images of a man being shot.

Gold, 25, stopped his car upon seeing a man dragging a woman toward
an SUV in the 1000 block of Saint Mary Street, police said. When he
tried to help, police said the gunman pointed a weapon at Gold and
demanded his money.

"The victim explained to the suspect, repeatedly, that he did not
have any cash," NOPD said in a news release. "The suspect became enraged
and shot the victim once in the stomach and attempted to shoot him a
second time, but the gun jammed."

Tulane
University and Crimestoppers are offering a $12,500 reward for
information that leads to the arrest of a man who shot 25-year-old Peter
Gold on Friday morning (Nov. 20) after Gold disrupted the man's attack
of a woman. Detectives are sifting leads after police released
surveillance video showing the incident, New Orleans Police Chief
Michael Harrison said in an interview...

The gunman took the woman's purse and drove away in a gray or silver SUV, police said. She was not injured.

Gold was taken to an area hospital, police said, where he is listed in "guarded" condition.

Police say investigations ongoing in on-the-road homicide

Bossier
Police are still investigating a case where a mother shot and
killed her son and injured a female passenger from the back seat of a
vehicle driving down I-20 on Saturday night.

The 40-year-old
woman, whose name still has not been released at this time, is expected
to survive her injury, said public information officer Bill Davis.
Police had a chance to question the woman, who said that she and Patrick
Hollingsworth had not kidnapped Dora Blake; rather, the three had gone
to a casino to celebrate Blake's upcoming birthday.

The "why" of the shooting is still under investigation. Blake was heavily intoxicated at the time, according to detectives.

"At this point it looks like her intoxication played a big role," Davis said.

Original Article:

Police are unraveling a disturbing scene in Bossier after they say a Minden woman murdered her son and a woman Saturday night.

Dora
Blake, a 47-year-old from the 400 block of Woodard Street in Minden, is
sitting in the Bossier Maximum Security Facility on a $1 million bond.
She was treated at a hospital for injuries she sustained during the car
crash that followed the shooting.

The vehicle Blake was in was
traveling east on Interstate 20 Saturday night after visiting a casino
in Bossier City, police said. Police said they were headed either to
Minden or to Jonesboro, where Blake is originally from.

Sunday was
Blake's birthday and she was apparently celebrating with the other
passengers, including her 22-year-old son, Patrick Hollingsworth.
Hollingsworth also goes by Patrick Watkins.

Police do not know why
Blake, who was in the back seat, took out a handgun while they were all
in the vehicle or why she shot and killed her son and shot and injured a
female passenger in her 40s, who police did not identify.

Both victims were in the front seat, and the vehicle crashed into the trees after.

Detectives
found Hollingsworth dead while investigating the crash scene around
10:20 p.m. The other woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to
survive.

Some people had pulled over to help and advised deputies
Blake told them she'd been kidnapped and had managed to shoot her
abductors.

"None of that made sense, that there was any type of
kidnapping," Bossier Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Bill Davis said.
"Witnesses tell us when she got out of the rear of the vehicle, she told
witnesses she was kidnapped and had just shot two people in the car."

Blake
was transported to the hospital for medical observation following the
crash and arrested on first degree and attempted first degree murder
charges. Detectives say Blake was highly intoxicated.

(CNN)Indianapolis
police arrested a teen and a 21-year-old Monday in the murder of Amanda
Blackburn, a pregnant mother and wife of a preacher who was shot and killed in a home invasion, authorities said.

Larry
Taylor, 18, of Indianapolis was initially charged with murder in the
shooting, Sgt. Kendale Adams of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police
Department said, but Marion County prosecutors will decide on final
charges.

A
charging document -- which the prosecutor's spokeswoman, Peg McLeish,
said is in the process of being filed with the courts -- states that
Taylor will face two counts of murder, murder while in the commission or
attempted commission of one of a host of other crimes, burglary
resulting in serious bodily injury, robbery resulting in serious bodily
injury, two counts of burglary, criminal confinement while armed with a
deadly weapon, three counts of theft of property valued between $750 and
$50,000, auto theft and carrying a handgun without a license. All but
the last charge are felonies.

Later
Monday, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced a second arrest
in the murder. Jalen Watson, 21, of Indianapolis faces the same charges
as Taylor, with the exceptions that his charging document mentions only
two murder charges, where Taylor's includes three, and there are no
charges for criminal confinement or carrying a handgun without a
license.

Detectives from the IMPD's
violent crimes unit worked with the gangs unit and federal marshals to
take Taylor in. IMPD Chief Rick Hite praised the cooperation that led to
the arrest.

"Our
detectives have worked tirelessly, going days without sleep, to solve
murders in our city. With the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh
Minkler and Prosecutor Terry Curry justice will be done!" he said in a
statement.

A promise

The arrests came 10 days after top police officials vowed in no uncertain terms to bring the killer to justice.

"We're coming to get you," Hite said at a November 13 news conference.

His
assistant commander of investigations, Maj. Eric Hench, also promised
results: "To the individual that committed this crime, you are not as
good as you think you are. You left behind evidence. We will find it. We
have found it. We will find you and we will not stop until we get you."

Police
were called to the Blackburns' home on the morning of November 10 and
found Amanda Blackburn, who had been shot, an IMPD news release said.

"When
officers arrived, they located the victim at the home, unresponsive,
and suffering from apparent signs of trauma," the release said.

She was taken to Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, where she died the following day.

Amanda
Blackburn, 28, was married to Resonate Church Pastor Davey Blackburn
and was pregnant when she died, according to a statement from her
husband that recounted how a gunman critically wounded his wife and "the
next day Amanda and her unborn daughter, Everette 'Evie' Grace
Blackburn, passed away as a result of her injuries."

One of the family's representatives, Suzanne Swift, told CNN that Amanda Blackburn was 13 weeks pregnant.

'Everything inside of me wants to hate'

The
couple's 1-year-old son, Weston, was home when the shooting occurred.
He was unharmed. Davey Blackburn, 30, discovered his wife after
returning from the gym that morning, the couple's church said.

The
Blackburns moved to Indianapolis in 2012 to start Resonate Church, and
"Amanda made it her life's calling to love and serve everyone she knew.
Even more, she has made it her life's mission to see as many people as
possible come to know Jesus as their personal Savior," a statement said.

Following news of Monday's arrests,
Davey Blackburn commended the IMPD's compassion and professionalism, and
he put forth three hopes he has for the case: that the courts have the
"wisdom on how to prosecute this man," that the perpetrator faces "great
consequences" for his crimes and experiences the "life-transforming
power" of Jesus' mercy and grace, and "that Jesus would give me and our
family a heart of forgiveness."

Davey Blackburn further said police had ensured him that they have a "solidly built case" against the suspect.

"Though
everything inside of me wants to hate, be angry, and slip into despair I
choose the route of forgiveness, grace and hope," Davey Blackburn said
in his statement. "If there is one thing I've learned from Amanda in the
10 years we were together, it's this: Choosing to let my emotions drive
my decisions is recipe for a hopeless and fruitless life. Today I am
deciding to love, not hate."

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